Posted on 07/27/2013 4:33:06 AM PDT by bryan999
WASHINGTON — Since the beginning of his second term, President Obama has appointed campaign fundraisers, party allies and other political figures as ambassadors at a level that is now almost double what has prevailed in the last few administrations.
More than 56% of Obama's 41 second-term ambassadorial nominations have been political, compared with an average of about 30% for recent administrations, according to U.S. government figures compiled by the American Foreign Service Assn. Of the political nominees, at least half have had fundraising roles.
The trend has emerged as the nomination of Caroline Kennedy to be ambassador to Japan, announced Wednesday, could renew the debate about selecting political allies who may have little diplomatic or country-specific expertise.
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How do you say “ya know” in Japanese? And how long will it take Ms. Kennedy to learn it?
“So solly!”
“Ne?”
Trending stupid and stupider.
“What’s going on here? What? What? What?” —Captain Binghamton
No problem. The next GOP Administration will clear out all this Democrat dead wood, /sarc
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No “l” in Japanese, so that would be more like “So soree”
Loses are led,
Viorets are brue,
I rive in Japan rong ago,
How bout you?
;^)
Caroline is sick of Ed and needs some distance so she called Barry and he’s sending her on an extended vacation to Japan for the next 3.5 years.
Using “you know” 142 times per interview will only endear her to the low information voters who comprise the Dim party. It occurs to me that somebody (our ruling elite?) might be grooming her to run against Hillary in ‘16.
I will have to remember to ask my daughter who is going to be Skyping with us tomorrow from Japan. She is working there teaching English — she is doing this because she graduated from university in 2009 and there were absolutely no jobs available for her.
Do itasha mashte. We’re pretty close to the bottom of my Japanese vocabulary. I left there in January 1969.
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